http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/broadsidecruiser/index.html

See what I mean.

Lets look at the concept art for the broadside, shall we?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/StellarMagic01/Broadside.jpg

Hmm... 40 missile tubes? Nope, just 3 tubes.

500 meters long? No, try 55.

2 Turbolaser Emplacements? Maybe, those two round humps on the side of the ship, more likely lasers then turbolasers though.

Dumb Star Wars DATABANK! 

In the movie they say that it is a "Revenge Class Heavy Carrier". Could not find it in any database. I think they invented it for the movie, but who knows?!

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25,000 years before A New Hope

The first hyperdrive is invented

The Old Republic, the first galaxy-wide government, is formed

The Jedi Knights appear, and a period of galactic peace and expansion begins

5,000 years before A New Hope

Naga Sadow rules as Dark Lord of the Sith

Fall of the Sith Empire

Naga Sadow leads the Sith into hiding on Yavin IV

Books and More:

Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith

Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire

4,400 years before A New Hope

Freedon Nadd comes to Onderon to rule, bringing with him dark Sith power

4,350 years before A New Hope

The Beast Wars of Onderon begin

4000 years before A New Hope

Jedi Knights, including Ulic Qel-Droma, intercede in the Beast Wars of Onderon

Andur Sunrider dies

Books and More:

Tales of the Jedi

3,998 years before A New Hope

The Freedon Nadd uprising

Books and More:

Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising

3,997 years before A New Hope

The Krath lead a political coup in the Empress Teta system

An assembly of 10,000 Jedi Knights meet at Mount Meru on Deneba

Books and More:

Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith

3,996 years before A New Hope

Exar Kun becomes a Dark Lord of the Sith

The trial of Ulic Qel-Droma

The Sith War and destruction of the Cron system

Books and More:

Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War

3,986 years before A New Hope

Books and More:

Tales of the Jedi: Redemption

896 years before A New Hope

Yoda is born

200 years before A New Hope

Chewbacca is born on Kashyyyk

92 years before A New Hope

Qui-Gon Jinn is born

82 years before A New Hope

Palpatine is born

72 years before A New Hope

Shmi Skywalker is born

57 years before A New Hope

Obi-Wan Kenobi is born

48 years before A New Hope

Mon Mothma, Senator and Alliance leader, is born on Chandrila

46 years before A New Hope

Padme Naberrie Amidala is born

44 years before A New Hope

Books and More:

Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force

Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival

Jedi Apprentice: The Hidden Past

Jedi Apprentice: The Mark of the Crown

Jedi Apprentice: The Defenders of the Dead

41 years before A New Hope

Anakin Skywalker is born

32 years before A New Hope

Obi-Wan Kenobi meets Anakin Skywalker

Senator Palpatine is elected Supreme Chancellor of the Republic

Qui-Gon Jinn is killed by Darth Maul

Darth Maul is killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo ends

Books and More:

Prelude to Rebellion

Cloak of Deception

Darth Maul: Saboteur

Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter

Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Outlander

The Bounty Hunters: Aurra Sing

31 years before A New Hope

Books and More:

Emissaries to Malastare

29 years before A New Hope

Han Solo is born in the Corellian star system

Books and More:

Rogue Planet

23 years before A New Hope

Books and More:

The Approaching Storm

22 years before A New Hope

Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers the cloning facilities on Kamino and uncovers the Separatist's plot to create a droid army

Shmi Skywalker dies in the arms of her son, leading Anakin to take a step toward the Dark Side

Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is granted additional control of the government to deal with the threat of the Separatists

Darth Sidious manipulates the Senate, Separatists, and Jedi, resulting in the first battle of the Clone Wars

While his son watches, Jango Fett is killed by Mace Windu

Anakin Skywalker loses his arm in a lightsaber duel with Darth Tyrannus

Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala are secretly married on Naboo

Clone Wars Timeline

Books and More:

Episode II: Attack of the Clones

21 years before A New Hope

Audition on Rattatak

Plans for the attack on Kamino are captured by the Republic

Battle of Kamino

Mace Windu investigates Master Bulq on Ruul

Defense of Naboo

Obi-wan retrieves an antidote on Queyta

Shaak Ti puts down a rebellion on Brentaal IV

Battle of Muunilinst

Anakin confronts Asajj Ventress on Yavin IV

Battle of Mon Calamari

Battle of Dantooine

Attack on Ilum

Battle of Hypori

Battle of Nivek

Battle of Iktotch

Battle of Mon Calamari continues

Battle of Terra Sool

Battle of Nadiem

Mace Windu disables a Confederacy weapon

The Devaron Ruse

Haruun Kal Crisis

Quinlan Vos meets with Count Dooku

The Bio-Droid Threat

Books and More:

Clone Wars I: The Defense of Kamino

Clone Wars II: Victories and Sacrifices

Clone Wars Micro-Series, Chapters 1 - 20

Clone Wars Adventures Volume 1

Clone Wars Adventures Volume 2

Clone Wars IV: Light and Dark

Clone Wars: Shatterpoint

Clone Wars: The Cestus Deception

20 years before A New Hope

Battle of Jabiim, Obi-Wan is captured

The Battle of Aargonar

Bail Organa and Finis Valorum are attacked

Obi-Wan Kenobi escapes from Rattatak

Anakin rescues Obi-Wan on Riflor

The Battle of Thustra

Quilan Vos assisinates Senator Viento

Battle of Merson

Battle of Null

Battle of New Holstice

Mission to The Rig

Quilan Vos kills Kh'aris

Battle of Zaadja

The Battle of Honoghr

The Casualties of Drongar

Books and More:

Clone Wars III: Last Stand on Jabiim

Clone Wars V: The Best Blades

Republic #65-68

Clone Wars: MedStar I: Battle Surgeons

Clone Wars: MedStar II: Healer

19 years before A New Hope

The Praesitlyn Conflict, Anakin earns his Jedi Knighthood

Vision at Vjun

The Jedi Council bestows the title of Jedi Knight on Anakin

Battle of Rendili

Anakin defeats Asajj Ventress on Coruscant

Investigation of Separatist activity in the Outer Rim begins

Obi-wan tracks down Asajj Ventress

The Outer Rim Sieges begin

Battle of Cato Neimoidia

Separatist Council placed under Grievous's protection

Battle of Belderone

Battle of Coruscant

Anakin turns to the Dark Side, becoming Darth Vader

The Galactic Empire is formed

Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa are born and placed in hiding

The Jedi Knights are hunted and killed

The rebellion began on coruscant with the signing of the Corellian Treaty.

Books and More:

Clone Wars: Jedi Trial

Clone Wars: Yoda: Dark Rendezous

Republic #68-72

Obsession

Labyrinth of Evil

Reversal of Fortune

Clone Wars Micro-Series Chapters 21-25

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

10 years before A New Hope

Books and More:

Droids (Dark Horse)

The Paradise Snare

5 years before A New Hope

Books and More:

Droids (Marvel)

Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal

The Hutt Gambit

Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu

Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon

Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of Thonboka

Han Solo at Star's End

Han Solo's Revenge

Han Solo and the Lost Legacy

Jedi Dawn/Bounty Hunter (game)

3 years before A New Hope

Books and More:

Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire

1 year before A New Hope

Books and More:

Rebel Dawn

A New Hope

Leia contacts Obi-Wan Kenobi with a plea for help

Luke Skywalker meets Obi-Wan

Owen and Beru Lars are murdered by the Empire

Han Solo becomes involved with the Rebel Alliance

Alderaan is destroyed

Darth Vader "strikes down" Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Battle of Yavin occurs, resulting in the destruction of the Death Star

Grand Moff Tarkin dies

Books and More:

Episode IV: A New Hope

Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina

Vader's Quest

Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures

Splinter of the Mind's Eye

River of Chaos

Star Wars newspaper strips

Classic Star Wars

Shadow Stalker

3 years after A New Hope

The Battle of Hoth takes place

Han Solo is captured by Boba Fett and turned over to Jabba the Hutt

Lando Calrissian becomes involved with the Rebel Alliance

Luke learns the identity of his father

Xizor and Dash Rendar are both presumably killed

Black Sun is brought down

Books and More:

Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Tales of the Bounty Hunters

Tales from Mos Eisley (Dark Horse)

Shadows of the Empire

The Bounty Hunters: Scoundrel's Wages

Roleplaying books / Adventure Journal

Random House Game Tie-Ins

Ewoks (Marvel)

Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage (TV movie)

Ewoks, the Battle for Endor (TV movie)

Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour (animated series)

Ewoks (animated series)

The Great Heep (TV animation)

4 years after A New Hope

Jabba the Hutt is overthrown

Luke learns his sister's identity - Leia

Yoda dies on Dagobah

Emperor Palpatine meets his fate at the hands of Darth Vader / Anakin Skywalker

Anakin shuns the Dark Side shortly before his own death

The Galactic Civil War officially ends with the Battle of Endor

The New Republic is formed

An alien race, the Ssi-Ruuk, attempt to overthrow the planet Bakura, but Imperial and New Republic forces join and defeat the new threat

Books and More:

Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

The Truce at Bakura

Tales from Jabba's Palace

Jabba the Hutt: The Jabba Tape

Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand

Shadows of the Empire - Evolution

Classic Star Wars: The Vandelhelm Mission

X-wing: Rogue Squadron (Dark Horse)

The Bounty Hunter Wars:

The Mandalorian Armor

Slave Ship

Hard Merchandise

5 years after A New Hope

Books and More:

Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction

The Glove of Darth Vader

The Lost City of the Jedi

Zorba the Hutt's Revenge

Mission from Mount Yoda

Queen of the Empire

Prophets of the Dark Side

7 years after A New Hope

Books and More:

X-wing: Rogue Squadron

X-wing: Wedge's Gamble

X-wing: The Krytos Trap

X-wing: The Bacta War

X-wing: Wraith Squadron

X-wing: Iron Fist

X-wing: Solo Command

8 years after A New Hope

Leia Organa and Han Solo are married

Books and More:

The Courtship of Princess Leia

9 years after A New Hope

Jacen and Jaina Solo are born

Grand Admiral Thrawn returns and solidifies the Imperial navy, but he is defeated by the New Republic

Joruus C'Boath surfaces

Mara Jade attempts to kill Luke Skywalker

Books and More:

The Thrawn Trilogy:

Heir to the Empire

Dark Force Rising

The Last Command

X-Wing: Isard's Revenge

10 years after A New Hope

Anakin Solo is born

The Emperor returns in a clone body, unleashing the World Devastators

Luke explores the Dark Side

The clone of Palpatine is finally defeated by a group of Jedi Knights, including Luke Skywalker

Books and More:

Dark Empire

Dark Empire II

Boba Fett: Death, Lies, and Treachery

11 years after A New Hope

Luke Skywalker establishes the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV

Kyp Durron steals the Sun Crusher

The spirit of Exar Kun is defeated on Yavin IV

Admiral Daala leaves Maw Installation

Books and More:

Empire's End

Crimson Empire

Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood

Crimson Empire III

The Bounty Hunters: Kenix Kil

I, Jedi

The Jedi Academy Trilogy:

Jedi Search

Dark Apprentice

Champions of the Force

12 years after A New Hope

Luke meets Callista

The Eye of Palpatine is defeated

Books and More:

Children of the Jedi

13 years after A New Hope

Admiral Daala and Vice-Admiral Paelleon form an alliance and defeat the feuding Imperial warlords

The Hutts build Darksaber, a modified version of the Death Star

Crix Madine dies

Luke Skywalker searches for Callista

Leia is kidnapped by Seti

Books and More:

Darksaber

X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar

Planet of Twilight

Jedi Academy: Leviathan

14 years after A New Hope

Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin are kidnapped, and Leia, Chewie, and R2 go after them

Han and Luke look for a lost group of Jedi but instead find an alien called Waru

Books and More:

The Crystal Star

16 years after A New Hope

Black Fleet declares war on the Rebublic

Luke searches for his mother

Books and More:

The Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy:

Before the Storm

Shield of Lies

Tyrant's Test

17 years after A New Hope

Kueller, Luke's former student Dolph, causes a holocaust on Almania

Books and More:

The New Rebellion

18 years after A New Hope

The government of the Corellian system is overturned, and a war within the system breaks out

Books and More:

The Corellian Trilogy:

Ambush at Corellia

Assault at Selonia

Showdown at Center Point

19 years after A New Hope

Moff Disra stages the return of Thrawn

The New Republic and the Imperial Remnant agree to peace

Luke and Mara get married

Books and More:

The Hand of Thrawn Duology:

Specter of the Past

Vision of the Future

Union

22 years after A New Hope

Books and More:

Junior Jedi Knights:

The Golden Globe

Lyric's World

Promises

Anakin's Quest

Vader's Fortress

Kenobi's Blade

23 years after A New Hope

Books and More:

Young Jedi Knights:

Heirs of the Force

Shadow Academy

The Lost Ones

Lightsabers

The Darkest Knight

Jedi Under Siege

Shards of Alderaan

Diversity Alliance

Delusions of Grandeur

Jedi Bounty

The Emperor's Plague

Return to Ord Mantell

Trouble on Cloud City

Crisis at Crystal Reef

25 years after A New Hope

Nom Anor incites war between Rhommamool and Osarian

Yomin Carr succeeds in his mission of distracting the ExGal4 scientists and turning Belkadan into a Yuuzhan Vong production planet, but he is killed in combat with Mara

Chewbacca dies as Serpindal's moon crashes into the planet

The first Yuuzhan Vong invasion fleet enters the galaxy but it is destroyed at the fourth planet of the Helska system

Two months later, a second wave of Vong warriors enter the galaxy and are held at bay, but only after devestating losses to the Republic at Dubrillion and Dantooine.

Books and More:

The New Jedi Order series:

Vector Prime

Dark Tide Duology:

Onslaught

Ruin

Agents of Chaos Duology:

Hero's Trial

Jedi Eclipse

26 years after A New Hope

Books and More:

The New Jedi Order series:

Balance Point

Edge of Victory Duology:

Conquest

Rebirth

27 years after A New Hope

Books and More:

The New Jedi Order series:

Star by Star

Dark Journey

Enemy Lines Duology:

Rebel Dream

Rebel Stand

Traitor

28 years after A New Hope

Books and More:

The New Jedi Order series:

Destiny's Way

Force Heretic Trilogy:

Remnant

Refugee

Reunion

The Final Prophecy

29 years after A New Hope

Books and More:

The New Jedi Order series:

The Unifying Force

34 YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN

DARK NEST

THE JOINER KING

THE UNSEEN QUEEN

THE SWARM WAR

WRITTEN BY TROY DENNING

PUBLISHED BY DEL REY: JULY - NOV. 2005

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NOTE:Details of the plot of "The Legacy of The Force" books were discussed at Celebration III.

37-39 YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN

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LEGACY OF THE FORCE, PARTS 1-3

BETRAYAL

BOOK TWO

BOOK THREE

WRITTEN BY AARON ALLSTON

PUBLISHED BY DEL REY: 2006

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LEGACY OF THE FORCE, PARTS 4-6

WRITTEN BY KAREN TRAVISS

PUBLISHED BY DEL REY: 2007

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LEGACY OF THE FORCE, PARTS 7-9

WRITTEN BY TROY DENNING

PUBLISHED BY DEL REY: 2008

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40 YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN

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NOTE: "The Lost Lightsaber" is an interesting little infinities story that I'm including in the timeline for the purposes of being complete. The placement is based on the premise that Ben Skywalker, Luke and Mara's son is in his late teens at the time of the story. There is a continuity flaw with the narative, it is written under the idea that the lightsaber Luke lost at Bespin in ESB drifted from owner to owner over the years until Ben shows up in this story and reclaims it. The problem is that it has been documented in more than one source that Vader retrieved both Luke's hand and saber after their fight and that the saber was eventually given to Ben's mother Mara at the end of "The Last Command" 10 years after The Battle of Yavin.

THE LOST LIGHTSABER

WRITTEN BY ANDREW ROBINSON AND JIM ROYAL

ART BY NURIA PERIS AND KRIS JUSTICE

PUBLISHED IN TALES #19 BY DARK HORSE COMICS: MARCH 2004

PUBLISHED AS PART OF TALES TRADE PAPERBACK VOL.5: JAN. 2005

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LONG AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN AND BEYOND

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NOTE: "Storyteller" is yet another infinites story. We may never know if it can be made a part of the official chronology or not but it seems to take place long after the events in the rest of the timeline. Hopefully C3PO will come to a better end than the one depicted here.

STORYTELLER

WRITTEN BY JASON HALL; ART BY PAUL LEE

PUBLISHED IN TALES #19 BY DARK HORSE COMICS: MARCH 2004

PUBLISHED AS PART OF TALES TRADE PAPERBACK VOL.5: JAN. 2005

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Two such Death Stars were featured in the original movie trilogy, the first in A New Hope, and the second in Return of the Jedi. The designs for the Death Star are visible in Attack of the Clones; early construction of a Death Star is seen in Revenge of the Sith.

There is some disagreement about the size of both Death Stars. According to some Expanded Universe sources and starwars.com, the first death star was 120 kilometers in diameter. This however, conflicts with the Star Wars Incredible Cross Sections fact book, which states that the first Death Star was 160 kilometers in diameter. There is similar disagreement about the size of the second Death Star seen in Return of the Jedi. Starwars.com states that the second death star is 160km in diameter. This is in contrast to the 900 km diameter figure stated in the Inside the Worlds of the Original Trilogy fact book. Detailed scaling of the stations in the movies also suggest the 160 km, and 900 km figures, respectively. DK nonfiction is considered canon by Lucasfilm Limited. Also, the starwars.com Databank lacks frequent or comprehensive updating, and the DK books were published after the Databank entries were created, which explains the discrepancy.

The initial design of the first Death Star was done by the Geonosians. They gave the designs of their "Great Weapon" to Count Dooku to prevent the designs from falling into Jedi hands. Dooku took the designs back to Coruscant and gave them to Darth Sidious and the "Great weapon" was captured by the Empire after the Empire was formed. Raith Sienar also had plans for a Death Star-like battle station. However, he later let Grand Moff Tarkin take credit for the design since he no longer had interest in the project.

In A New Hope, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker mistake the station for a small moon while following a lone TIE fighter. After escaping from the Death Star, the plans to the station, stolen by Rebel spies (according to the LucasArts video games, a secret signal interceptions asteroid, as well as Kyle Katarn), are transported by Princess Leia (with help from Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO) to Rebel leaders. Luke Skywalker pilots an X-Wing starfighter through a trench-like indentation on the surface of the Death Star, evading a pursuing Darth Vader long enough to launch a pair of proton torpedo down a thermal exhaust port that reaches right down into the "reactor core", causing a chain reaction to destroy the battle station.

In Return of the Jedi, Bothan spies steal the plans to the second Death Star, unaware that their theft was orchestrated by Emperor Palpatine. General Crix Madine and Admiral Ackbar devise a plan for its destruction. Han Solo leads a team to the forest moon of Endor to destroy its shield generator, while group of fighters and the Millennium Falcon piloted by Lando Calrissian fly into the centre of the ship through a narrow maze of pipes and destroy the reactor directly, rushing out in just enough time to escape the ensuing explosion.

One drawback of the original design was the power systems. The first Death Star's reactor required one full day to generate enough energy for a full power shot. However, even low power shots were capable of massive destruction on a planetary scale. The second Death Star had redesigned systems and was capable of firing once every few minutes. It also had improved targeting computers, allowing it to fire the weapon at capital ships.

The second Death Star corrected several flaws of the original design. The two-meter exhaust vent that doomed the first station was replaced with millions of millimeter wide tubes, each designed to seal if excess energy was detected. The second station also boasted far more turbolaser batteries with redesigned targeting systems, allowing them to target starfighters more easily. The greatest concentration of turbolasers was located near the Emperor's throne tower.

Expanded Universe

In the early production of the original movie, the hollow dish was designed to be on the equator, but then it was decided to be on the 'northern' hemisphere. However this old design can still be seen in the grid plan animations seen in the movie. This is because the animation was created before the designer decided to change it. This is a blooper, since the original plan in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones shows the 'later' form.

At the same time of the first Death Star's construction, Sienar was designing a battlestation (without a superlaser) of similar size and prestige as the Geonosian/Imperial superweapon. The best elements of both were apparently merged together with final detail work taking place in the secret Maw Cluster on Kessel. This laboratory completed a scaled-down prototype that was later destroyed by the New Republic.

One of the primary designers of the Death Star was an engineer named Bevel Lemelisk. Lemelisk worked with the Geonosians to convert Sienar's Expeditionary Battle Planetoid into a superlaser-armed battlestation, and later designed more Imperial superweapons in the Maw Installation before overseeing the Death Star's construction at the planet Despayre.

Durga the Hutt also built a small version with only the central laser core and a small living quarters, which was destroyed in the asteroid field around Hoth. This was known as the Darksaber but shoddy construction techniques meant that this attempt was an abject failure even before its destruction.

Many of the Star Wars games are concerned with the Death Star's destruction, or the theft, protection, and transmission of its plans by the Rebel Alliance, and also the Battle of Yavin.

Death Star

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The Death Star was the code name of an unspeakably powerful and horrific weapon developed by the Empire. The immense space station carried a weapon capable of destroying entire planets. The Death Star was to be an instrument of terror, meant to cow treasonous worlds with the threat of annihilation. While the massive station is evidence of the evil that was the Galactic Empire, it was also proof of the New Order's greatest weakness -- the belief that technology and terror were superior to the will of oppressed beings fighting for freedom.

The Death Star was a battle station the size of a small moon. It had a formidable array of turbolasers and tractor beam projectors, giving it the firepower of greater than half the Imperial starfleet. Within its cavernous interior were legions of Imperial troops and fightercraft, as well as all manner of detention blocks and interrogation cells. The Death Star was spherical, and dark gray in color. Located on the Death Star's northern hemisphere was a concave disk housing the station's main laser weapon.

The brainchild of Grand Moff Tarkin, the Death Star was developed in secret. Rebel Alliance spies were nonetheless able to learn of the weapon's existence, and stole vital technical schematics from guarded Imperial vaults. These desperate spies transmitted this data to Rebel leader Princess Leia Organa, who stored the plans in R2-D2's memory systems.

In a brutal display of the Death Star's power, Grand Moff Tarkin targeted its prime weapon at the peaceful world of Alderaan. Leia Organa, an Imperial captive at the time, was forced to watch as the searing laser blast split apart her beloved world, turning the planet and its populace into orbital ash and debris.

Using the stolen technical data, Alliance tacticians were able to pinpoint a crucial flaw in the Death Star's design. A small ray-shielded thermal exhaust port led directly from the surface of the station into the heart of its colossal reactor. If the port could be breached by proton torpedoes, then the resulting chain reaction would destroy the station.

The Rebel Alliance boldly launched its available starfighter forces against the station. The Imperials were so confident in the Death Star's might that they never considered the Rebel fighters a viable threat. After all, the station was designed to withstand a full frontal assault from large capital ships. At first, the Empire didn't even launch TIE fighters to counter the attack.

With the aid of Han Solo, the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the power of the Force, Luke Skywalker was able to successfully hit the small target, and triggered the Death Star's demise.

Death Star 2

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Within three years of the Death Star's demise, the Galactic Empire again proved its evil nature with the construction of a second Death Star in a remote region of space. Fortunately for the galaxy, the Empire never completed this monstrosity. Word of its construction was spread through the Rebel ranks by Bothan spies. The Alliance was able to pinpoint the exact location of Death Star's construction, and mount a pre-emptive strike to destroy the station.

The leaked information was all a ruse. The scheming Emperor Palpatine engineered the Rebellion's discovery of the Death Star in the hopes of trapping the growing Rebel fleet. The second Death Star would not be as vulnerable as the Rebels believed.

To ensure that the Death Star would destroy the lured Alliance fleet, Palpatine entrusted the supervision of its final phase of construction to his Sith apprentice, Lord Darth Vader. Vader motivated the Death Star's commander, Moff Jerjerrod, to see that the battle station was operational when the Emperor arrived for his inspection tour.

The second Death Star was not a complete sphere. Though much of the battle station's recognizable shape was visible, there were huge sections of exposed superstructure and visible skeleton. To protect the half-completed and immobile station during its construction, the Empire projected an immense deflector shield from the nearby forest moon of Endor. The shield was strong enough to protect any breach from both capital and starfighter-class ships.

The Alliance sent a commando team to land on the moon and deactivate the shield generator while the Rebel fleet emerged from hyperspace to destroy the station. Unlike the previous Death Star, whose reactor core was accessible only from a two-meter wide exhaust port, the second Death Star's heart had to be destroyed by actually flying into the superstructure and detonating the collosal power plant.

The commando team was waylaid by Imperials and the Rebel fleet arrived to find the deflector shield intact. Worse yet, the superlaser was operational, and began destroying Rebel Mon Calamari cruisers with each blast. General Lando Calrissian came up with a daring and foolhardy tactic to engage the Imperial fleet at point-blank range, thus limiting the Death Star's available targets.

Aided by the native Ewoks of Endor, the Rebels were able to infiltrate and destroy the shield generator complex. With the shield down, General Calrissian led the Alliance starfighters into the inner recesses of the Death Star. There, he and Wedge Antilles loosed a volley of ordnance that began an immense fireball that tore apart the station.

Emperor Palpatine's body was consumed in the explosion. The Imperial fleet never recovered from the fiasco. What was to be the Rebel Alliance's demise instead turned into the death of the Empire. As firey fragments of the battle station burned away in Endor's atmosphere, the celebratory cheers of freedom rang throughout the forests, and indeed, the entire galaxy.

The second Death Star's size ballooned to 160 kilometers in diameter, larger than the original, and featured a superlaser of greater power. Not only could this prime weapon deliver a more devastating blast, but it could fire more often and with greater accuracy.

The second Death Star, if completed, would have featured over 30,000 turbolaser batteries, 7,500 laser cannons, 5,000 ion cannons and 768 tractor beams.

Privateer Vessels

Imperial Navy

Alliance Vessels

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At the time of the Trade Federation's blockade of the planet Naboo Palpatine was the senator to the planet but he had a secret identity. Known to the Trade Federation as Darth Sidious, Palpatine convinced Viceroy Nute Gunray to carry out an invasion of Naboo. This gave Palpatine a chance to challenge Chancellor Valorum's rule of the Republic. The convinced the senate, with the help of Queen Amidala, to vote in a new leader. The senate voted in favour of Palpatine and he became Chancellor.

Palpatine's rule over the Republic was greatly increased due to the Separatist movement and the fear of a full scale war. The Separatists were led by a sith called Count Dooku, who was Darth Sidious' (Palpatine) apprentice, the Trade Federation, Techno Union and the Commerce Guilds were also members of the Separatists.

Sidious ordered Dooku to create an army of droids for the Separatists to battle against the Republic. With the discovery of this threat Palpatine was voted emergency powers to deal with the Separatist threat. With these powers Palpatine used the clone army (which he had ordered 15 years before the crisis under the name of an old Jedi master who been killed that year) to battle the Separatists. Thus the Clone Wars began.

3 years into the clone wars Palpatine had been granted even more powers from the senate and really already was supreme ruler of the Republic but he had two obstacles to overcome the Jedi Order and the Senate.

In a desperate attempt to take the Republic capital the Separatists attacked the Republic fleet and captured Palpatine from the planet's surface. Two Jedi, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wann-Kenobi, launched a rescue mission to save the Chancellor. In the process of saving the Chancellor Anakin assinated Count Dooku, all that was left achieve peace was the death or capture General Grievous, leader of the droid armies. Obi-Wann-Kenobi went to Utapau and assinated Grievous, minutes after Master Windu went to strip Palpatine of his power and the Chancellor's secret identity was revealed. In his attempt to kill the Chancellor Master Windu was murdered by Anakin Skywalker who came to save Palpatine his mentor. Palpatine sustained horrific scars from his battle with Master Windu.

The attempt of his life gave Palpatine an excuse to eliminate the Jedi, Skywalker led an attack on the Jedi Temple and the rest of the Jedi spread across the galaxy were dealt with by there clone troopers. Palpatine called an emergency session of congress and announced that the Jedi tried to overthrow the Republic and that the only way the galaxy could ever be save was to create the Galactic Empire, no one opposed and Palpatine declared himself Emperor.

The other Separatist leaders were assinated by Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker) and peace was achieved for now.

12 years after the creation of the Empire the Galactic Civil War began it was led by members of the senate who opposed the Empire's rule over the galaxy. With the creation of the Death Star, Palpatine could finally dissolve the senate and rule out of fear. He had finally achieved complete control over the Empire.

Is this correct if not tell me what i have missed please

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